If the earth is truly floating in an empty vacuum of space, a photograph of the earth does not need to be Photoshopped, as claimed by Simmon. NASA could simply send out a rocket with a camera into outer space and take a picture of the earth. NASA allegedly had no problem doing just that in 1972. However, it seems that with 30 years of advancement in technology NASA lost the ability to take pictures from space. The real reason that NASA must resort to Photoshop images of the earth from space is that there is no outer space and the earth is not a sphere floating in that non-existent space.
In 2002, NASA scientists and visualizers stitched together strips of brand new data, in natural color, collected over four months from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, or MODIS, instrument aboard Terra. They added a layer of clouds to create this composite Blue Marble that became one of the most iconic Earth images of the new century when Apple selected it as their default background for the iPhone in 2007. A version of the MODIS Blue Marble is now used as the base layer in many visualizations of NASA Earth science data. 489 Indeed, when examining the blue marble composite, one can see duplicate clouds on its surface, which is a dead giveaway that it is not truly a photograph from space.